Rate My Professor Kaiyuan Yang

Kaiyuan Yang is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Engineering faculty at Rice University, where he leads the Secure and Intelligent Micro-Systems (SIMS) Lab. He received his B.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, China, in 2012, M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2014, and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2017. Joining the Rice faculty in 2017, Yang's research specializes in low-power integrated circuits and system design for bioelectronics, hardware security, and mixed-signal/in-memory computing. The SIMS Lab develops innovative analog, digital, and mixed-signal circuit and system designs to advance energy efficiency and performance in miniaturized microsystems powered by tiny or no batteries, enabling applications in ubiquitous computing, the Internet of Everything, and biomedical implants and wearables. His work addresses hardware-level challenges in security and machine learning through cross-layer optimizations spanning devices, circuits, architecture, and algorithms.

Yang has been awarded the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2022 and the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society New Frontier Award in 2025. Additional honors include the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Predoctoral Achievement Award and best paper awards from conferences such as ACM MobiCom (2022), IEEE EMBC (2024), IEEE CICC (2021), IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland, 2016), and IEEE ISCAS (2015). His research has earned recognition as highlights in Communications of the ACM, ACM GetMobile, and IEEE Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security, with invited presentations at ISSCC, IEDM, ICCAD, RFIC, and ASSCC. Notable publications include "Miniature battery-free bioelectronics" in Science (2023), "Wireless Endovascular Nerve Stimulation with a Millimeter-Sized Magnetoelectric Implant" in Nature Biomedical Engineering (2022), "Magnetoelectrics for Implantable Bioelectronics: Progress to Date" in Accounts of Chemical Research (2024), and "Omnidirectional Wireless Power Transfer for Millimetric Magnetoelectric Biomedical Implants" in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (2024). He serves as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems and as a program committee member for ISSCC, CICC, ISCA, and DAC.